Jonas Hellborg, Mattias Ia Eklundh & Ranjit Barot - Art Metal - The Jazz Raj

Artist: Jonas Hellborg / Mattias Ia Eklundh / Ranjit Barot
Album: The Jazz Raj
Year: 2014
Genre:  Guitar Virtuoso, Jazz, Fusion
Format: lossless, flac
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Tracklist:
 
1. [33:15] - The Swami on Park Street
2. [31:32] - Bacchic Frenzy

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Jonas Hellborg - The Word

Artist: Jonas Hellborg
Album: The Word
Year: 1991
Genre:  Jazz Rock, Jazz
Format: 320 kbps mp3
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Tracklist:
1. Akasha
2. Zat Listen
3. Saut-E Sarmad
4. Two Rivers Listen
5. Be! And All Become
6. Poets
7. Black Rite
8. Cherokee Mist
9. Miklagaard
10. Path over Clouds

This is an intriguing and rather original set of music. Jonas Hellborg, whose conception of the acoustic bass guitar is much closer to a guitar than to a bass, teams up with drummer Tony Williams and the flexible Soldier String Quartet. The sparse sextet explores songs that (according to the liners) are influenced by Arab music, Jimi Hendrix, Tony Williams' Lifetime and Bartok. A variety of moods are explored and the unusual blend of instruments and styles grow in interest each time they are heard. It is a pity though that the playing time is less than 37 minutes. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide

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Jonas Hellborg feat. Shawn Lane - Icon

Artist: Jonas Hellborg feat. Shawn Lane
Album:  Icons
Year: 2002
Genre:  Jazz, Ethno Jazz, Fusion
Format: 256 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
1. Anchor - 15:02
2. Mirror - 23:20
3. Vehicle - 16:10
4. Escape - 4:46

    Jonas Hellborg is a bass guitarist with the omnivorous ears of a Don Cherry and the once-in-a-generation instrumental technique of a John McLaughlin. He is also thankfully something of an anarchist.The approach to his own instrument and choice of collaborators has seen him build a body of work consistently rewarding, sophisticated and almost entirely above genre. "Icon" continues an exploration of South Indian musical tradition. This began in earnest with Hellborg's previous collaborations with the sons of the legendary ghatam (clay pot) player "Vikku" Vinayakram (famous for his work with Shakti) and the extraordinary guitarist Shawn Lane. All appear here.Instrumental virtuosity, a practically telepathic communication between the five musicians and unorthodox composition from Hellborg and V. Selvaganesh are the order of the day. This is obvious within the first bars of "Anchor", where Hellborg coaxes microtones out of a slapped fretless acoustic bass guitar over a drone.Umamahesh's vocal proves a rhythmic counterpoint, while Shawn Lane's guitar floats over the high registers with an almost violin-like quality. Lane's shift to rhythmic chords is the cue for Selvaganesh and Umashankar on kanjeera and ghatam to drive the tune forward with stupidly fast feats of percussion. And Hellborg's solo is, well impossible. Distorted guitar, passages of rhythmic unison and a solo with a curiously vocal quality from Hellborg distinguish "Mirror".A structurally complicated piece,it hits a series of breakdowns and rhythmic swells at the nine minute mark. "Vehicle" by contrast sees deliberate, simple arpeggios and chords from Hellborg's almost lute-like bass guitar give way to beautiful runs from register to register.Lane's fluid guitar then takes on a tone something like a sarangi and the Vinayakram brothers exchange rhythms of splendid complexity. This release isa masterclass in cross-cultural collaboration.Not so much the meeting of two different traditions as the invention of a new one. Superb.
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Jonas Hellborg feat. Buckethead - Octave Of The Holy Innocents

Artist: Jonas Hellborg feat. Buckethead
Album: Octave Of The Holy Innocents
Year: 1995
Genre: Avant-Garde, Guitar Virtuoso, Jazz/Fusion
Format: 320 kbps mp3
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Tracklist:

1. Rana and Fara (15:06)
2. Death That Sleeps in Them (5:24)
3. The Past Is a Different Country, I Don't Live There Anymore (9:15)
4. Child King (5:50)
5. Kidogo (7:11)

Bassist/composer Jonas Hellborg writes, "The music on Octave Of The Holy Innocents was recorded with Michael Shrieve, one of the truly legendary drummers of the world, and, at the time, a relatively unknown guitarist Buckethead, who has since become one of the most important voices in the electric guitar community. When looking over the tapes of these sessions I discovered tracks that I did not use the first time around. So there are no extra songs on this reissue, but a fundamental reworking of all the compositions of the first release. Some new light on this music that I did with two of my absolute favorite musicians. As I wrote years ago, in a world of premeditated mass murder by governments, of rampant pedophilia, of values turned inside out by media tycoons in order to make money, of torture and unchecked genocide. Who is innocent? We need to protect innocence. Not only individuals rights to be innocent but also innocence as a source of beauty, creativity and wisdom."

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Jonas Hellborg feat. Mattias IA Eklundh - Art Metal

  
















Artist: Jonas Hellborg feat. Mattias IA Eklundh
Album: Art Metal
Genre: Progressive, Guitar Virtuoso, Freak 
Year: 2007
Format: 320 kbps mp3
Tracklist:
1. Muthucutpor (Hellborg/Selvaganesh/Eklundh)
2. Manirambha (Hellborg/Selvaganesh/Eklundh 
3. Nataraja (Hellborg/Selvaganesh)
4. Solitude (Hellborg/Selvaganesh)
5. The Three Princes of Serendip (Hellborg/Selvaganesh)
6. Round Metal Hat (Hellborg/Selvaganesh/Eklundh)
7. Vyakhyan - kar (Hellborg)
8. Art Metal (Hellborg/Selvaganesh/Eklundh)

Combining Selvaganesh's South Indian rhythm structures with Hellborg's frantic, groovy bass, freaky, beefy guitar riffs and vivid leads, Jens Johansson's virtuoso fingers and Anders Johansson's heavy beats this is something you have never heard before. Plain and simple: it's Art Metal. Don't miss.

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